CHICAGO — Nearly seven years after Illinois lawmakers approved recreational cannabis legalization, applicants who lost out on ...

Firefighters are battling a fire at a pallet warehouse in Maywood, Illinois, on Saturday afternoon. The fire broke out at a ...

After years of litigation, the state of Illinois faces one final lawsuit over how it rolled out licenses to “social equity ...

The final lawsuit of dozens filed following the first cannabis licensing lottery in 2020 finally got its day in court this ...

A Springfield teenager is facing felony charges after Springfield Police said he illegally had two guns — one stolen — with ...

An 18-year-old man was arrested early March 22 after police say he fled officers, struck a squad car and was found in ...

Voters in Illinois’ race for governor this fall will have a justifiable case of deja vu as Darren Bailey, the Republican Party’s unsuccessful 2022 nominee, will face off once again against two-term ...

The Illinois Student Assistance Commission and global education company Kaplan announced that Illinois’ first-in-the-nation free test preparation program will continue through the end of the academic ...

Carol Moseley Braun — the former U.S. senator from Illinois and first Black woman to hold the office — had just ended a call with newly minted Democratic Senate nominee Juliana Stratton on Wednesday ...

Illinois Future PAC, which has gotten hefty donations from Pritzker and his family, spent $14.9 million to attack Krishnamoorthi and boost Stratton. She needed the help. Her campaign spent just $1.1 ...

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